Article: `West Wing' actor Rob Lowe has a personal reason for promoting breast-cancer awareness.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Let's get this out of the way first: Rob Lowe is every bit as good-looking in person as he is on screen. Maybe more so.

Yet the famous film and television actor, who stars as deputy communications director Sam Seaborn in NBC's prime-time White House soap opera "The West Wing," wasn't focusing on himself during a visit Friday morning to the Lee Co. in Merriam, Kan.

He was there to talk about breast cancer.

Lowe, whose grandmother died in 1989 from the disease, answered questions and served as spokesman for the fifth annual Lee National Denim Day. On Friday the Lee Co. and about 550 other Kansas City area companies asked more than 1 million ...

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